What do we know about the liturgy of the church in Rome to around 600? How we respond to this question affects our interpretation of the development of Western liturgy in this period and enables us to evaluate the Roman tradition with that of other major sees. Surprisingly there has been very little recent scholarship on some of the key topics and this conference will present fresh research from leading scholars.

Registration fee for each day: £30 including lunch, (£15 for full-time students).To register, email the convener, Dr Juliette Day.

DAY ONE

Saturday, 14^th November 2009

'What do we really know about early Roman liturgy?'

Paul Bradshaw, Professor of Liturgy at Notre Dame University, USA

Publications include:

The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship (SPCK, 1992, 2002),

The Apostolic Tradition: A Commentary(with Maxwell E. Johnson and L. Edward Phillip; Hermeneia Commentary Series; Minneapolis: Fortress Press 2002);

The New SCM Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship (SCM, 2002);
Eucharistic Origins (OUP 2004).

Liturgical Practices at the Cult Sites of Roman Martyrs

Dr Maura Lafferty

Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Publications include:

Walter of Châtillon's Alexandreis: Epic and the Problem of Historical Understanding. (Brepols, 1998).

'Non scholastico modo: Education and Irish Identity in the Dublin Collection of Irish Saints' Lives', Sacris Erudiri (2008).

'Augustine, the Aeneid, and the Roman Family', Hoping for Continuity: Childhood, Education and Death in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, ed. K. Mustakallio, J. Hanska, H.-L. Sainio, and V. Vuolanto, Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae, 33 (Rome: Institum Romanum Finlandiae, 2005), pp. 105-118.

'Translating Faith from Greek to Latin: Romanitas and Christianitas in Late Fourth-Century Rome and Milan' Journal of Early Christian Studies 11 (2003), pp. 21-62.

Title: 'Archaeology and the study of Early Roman liturgy'

Professor Olof Brandt

Secretary of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Archaeology, Rome

Publications include:

'Jews and Christians in Late Antique Rome and Ostia. Some aspects of archaeological and documentary evidence' in Opuscula Romana 29 (2004).

'Deer, lambs and water in the Lateran baptistery', Rivista di archeologia cristiana 81

(2005) 131-156

'The Lateran baptistery and the diffusion of octagonal baptisteries from Rome to

Constantinople', in Akten des XIV. Internationalen Kongresses für christliche Archäologie.

Wien 19.-26.9.1999. Frühes Christentum zwischen Rom und Konstantinopel (Studi di

antichità cristiana pubblicati a cura del Pontificio istituto di archeologia cristiana

62), Città del Vaticano 2006, 221-227.

Title: 'Using God in war: shifting attitudes to war in V-VII century Roman liturgical sources'

Dr Thomas Whelan,

Dean of Theology at the Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy, Dublin

Title: 'Who were the circumstantes and when did we forget them?'

Professor Thomas O'Loughin

Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Nottingham

DAY TWO

Saturday 27th February 2010

'The Apostolic Tradition' (tbc)
Prof. Christoph Markschies

Christoph Markschies is Professor at Berlin Humbolt University. His publications include: Between Two Worlds: Structures of Earliest Christianity (London: SCM Press, 1999); Gnosis : an introduction, tr. by J. Bowden. (London: T & T Clark, 2003);
Das antike Christentum. Frömmigkeit, Lebensformen, Institutionen (München: C. H. Beck 2006); Origenes und sein Erbe. Gesammelte Studien (Berlin/New York: de Gruyter 2007); Kaiserzeitliche christliche Theologie und ihre Institutionen, (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2007) .

'Interpreting the Origins of the Roman Canon'

Dr Juliette Day

Senior Research Fellow in Christian Liturgy at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford and Director of Liturgical Studies at Sarum College.

Publications include

'The Origin of the Anaphoral Benedictus', Journal of Theological Studies vol. 60 (2009), pp. 193-211.

The Baptismal Liturgy of Jerusalem: 4thand 5thCentury Evidence in Jerusalem, Egypt and Syria (Ashgate, 2007)

Proclus on Initiation in Constantinople (SCM-Canterbury Press, 2005)

Title: tbc

Professor Robin Jensen

Luce Chancellor's Professor of the History of Christian Art and Worship at Vanderbuilt University

Publications include

Face to Face: The Portrait of the Divine in Early Christianity (Fortress, 2005).

The Substance of Things Seen: Art, Faith, and the Christian Community (Eerdmans, 2004).

Understanding Early Christian Art (Routledge, 2000).

Professor Mark Humphries

Professor of Ancient History at the University of Swansea

Title: TBC

Major publications include:

Communities of the Blessed. Social Environment and Religious Change in Northern Italy, AD 200-400 (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1999).

'From Emperor to Pope? Ceremonial, space, and authority in Rome from Constantine to Gregory the Great', in K. Cooper and J. Hillner (eds) Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in Early Christian Rome, 300-900 (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2007) 21-58.

'Constantine, Christianity, and Rome', Hermathena 171 (2001 [2003]), 47-63.

Roman Baptismal Theology and Liturgy in the Fifth Century: Arator's Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles

Dr Richard Hillier

Headmaster of The Oratory Preparatory School,

Publications include: Arator on the Acts of the Apostles : a baptismal commentary (OUP: Oxford, 1993).